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The Time Capsule - 1950s
Memories, images and experiences from the 1950s.
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Colliery Boy 1950s

Colliery Boy

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  Childhood by the seaside - 1950
I was born in the Sandfields area of Swansea (then town now city). In the summer holidays a crowd of children were taken to the beach which was just three streets away. Read More		  
 
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  The day that changed my life

It was Friday morning, early November 1959. I was 16, and working as an apprentice tailor. The factory manager was a tyrant who always seemed to pick me out for public humiliation in front of dozens of women. I suppose it made him feel good, as at 5'3", I was the only one shorter than him!  read more.

  
 

 

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